Alumni
2011/2012
Gloria Adduci, Italy
Governing agrobiotechnology in developing countries: the case of South East Asia
Erbol Anarbekov, Uzbekistan
A policy priority for developing contries of sustainable consumption and production: options for change in case Uzbekistan
Emmy Dahl, Sweden
Men talking about the environment: discursive masculinities in men’s talk about climate change and sustainable travel
Nichole Dusyk, Canada
Constructing and Contesting Clean Energy in British Columbia: The Role of Local Engagement
Seyed Mohamed Sadegh Emamian, UK
Transition theories in energy policy
Katherine Harrison, Sweden
Information management, gender and organisation
Andrew S. Hoffman, USA
Personalizing standards: Searching for synergy in comparative effectiveness research & personalized medicine
Jamilia I. Jeenbaeva, Kyrgyz Republic
Organizational structures and cultures that are conducive to climate-smart consumption and footprint moderation
Katalin Kovács, Hungary
The role of SMEs and user-involvement in enhancing innovation in the renewable energies sector
Florian Muhle, Germany
Drifting ice floes: Enacting common knowledge of climate change
Amber D. Nelson, USA
Biomedicalization and Geneticization of Societal Understandings, Funding and Policy of Mental Health and Illness
Yuliya Voytenko, Ukraine
Exogenous Influences on the Establishment of Bioenergy Industries in Transition Economies and Emergence of niches for biogas in traditional energy systems
Steffen Wirth, Switzerland
The case of biomass digestion technology in the federal state 'Steiermark'
Lech W. Zacher, Poland
Understanding technology
2010/2011
Gloria Adduci, Italy
Governing agrobiotechnology in developing countries: the case of South East Asia
Gerald Aiken, UK
Exploring the potential synergy between the socio-technical system approach to transition, and that of emergent, ground-up, community-based transition initiatives
Thomas Berger, Austria
Fuel poverty: a sociological case study in Styria
Florence Chee, Canada
Communication Infrastructures and Changing Social Dynamics in Asian and European Contexts
Rositsa Dikova, Bulgaria
New stories, new agents: The impact of ICT on self-representation and narrative identity
Nir Fresco, Australia
The Information Processing Account of Concrete Digital Computation
Teija Helena Karasti, Finland
Long-term and e-research infrastructure development
Lisiunia A. Romanienko, Poland
The role of ICT in unifying alterglobalization activists
Sandy L. Ross, United Kingdom
Invisible Ecological Costs
Aleksandra Stupar, Serbia
Towards the ultimate e3-topia: Scrambling the energy efficient, eco-friendly and electronic urban future?
Corinna Vosse, Germany
New approaches towards strengthening sustainable consumption
Yuliya Voytenko, Ukraine
Exogenous Influences on the Establishment of Bioenergy Industries in Transition Economies and Emergence of niches for biogas in traditional energy systems
Lech W. Zacher, Poland
Literature studies in the area of science, technology and democracy with special attention to environmental problems and ICT.
2009/2010
Gloria Adduci, Italy
Governing agrobiotechnology in developing countries: the case of South East Asia
Anne-Sophie Godfroy-Genin, France
International comparisons in science studies: what and why do we compare?
Ute Kalender, Germany
Beyond androcentric gene-determinism? Notions of gender in epigenetic knowledge
Anne Maassen, United Kingdom, Germany and France
Exploring the methodological potential of a "network analysis" approach to the study of renewable energy uptake
David Mercer, Australia
Norms and Irony in the Biosciences: Ameliorating Critique in Synthetic Biology
Sarolta Németh, Finland and Hungary
Rural socio-technological networks along the renewable energy production chain
Monica Obreja, Sweden
What do we mean when we say ‘gender and technology’? Reflections on subjects, objects and relations
Gülsevim Ocak, Turkey
Comparison of people living in Ankara and Graz towards biotechnological products and services applied in medicine
Fotini Tsaglioti, Greece
Regulating wind energy accumulation in autonomous units and industrial parks: Historical to policy considerations
Lech W. Zacher, Poland
Understanding technology
2008/2009
Kolya Abramsky, United Kingdom / USA
Conflicts and alliances in the globally expanding renewable energy sector
Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Canada / India
Investigation of the risk assessment policies for the regulation of herbicide resistant alfalfa in Canada
Philip Dearman, Australia
A comparative genealogy of computer technologies in the classroom: Australia and Austria
A.Senem Deviren, Turkey
The effects of landscape design on micro climate regulations in housing environments and energy efficient housing design
Jan Fischer, United Kindom
Sustainable Buildings: Designers as Intermediaries of Carbon-neutral Futures
Christian Gross, Austria
Master’s thesis: Diffusion and adoption of solar thermal applications in Graz
Dorothea Jansen, Germany
Social Networks in Science and Technology
Nadja Kanellopoulou, United Kingdom
Groups and genomics research: novel approaches in biotechnology governance
Ingmar Lippert, Germany
Ecological Modernisation Practices Conceptualised Through Science and Technology Studies Perspectives
Franc Mali, Slovenia
Social, Political and Ethical Implications of Converging Technologies
Amrita Mishra, India
Biomarkers for cervical cancers: Discourses of risk and gender in gynecological diagnostics
Matthias Naumann, Germany
At the end of the pipe…Transformation of water infrastructure systems in rural East Germany
Giuseppina Pellegrino, Italy
Mobilities and Technological Mediation - Interaction, co-presence and ubiquitous infrastructures in international consultants’ work
Helen Peterson, Sweden
Work Ideals in Engineering Research: Gender, Technology and Career Development
Amir Sulfikar, Singapore
Nuclear Risk and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Jaakko Suominen, Finland
Cultural Appropriation of the Internet / Nostalgia and Retrogaming in Digital Culture
Anna Zivian, USA
Back to the Länder: Subnational GMO policy in Austria
2007/2008
Corinna Bath, Germany
Towards a De-gendered Design of Information Technologies.
Feminism, Computer Science, and the Paradigm Shift towards ‚Interaction’
Agnes Fesus, Hungary
From risk to incertitude management in managing emerging radical innovations and disruptive industries, assessing some mangement tools
Anton Kramberger, Slovenia
Segmented labour markets and sustainable development in Slovenia
Ingmar Lippert, Germany
Agents of Ecological Modernisation in Corporations – An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Corporate Environmental Management
Amrita Mishra, India
Biomarkers for cervical cancers: Discourses of risk and gender in gynecological diagnostics
Tatiana Safonova, Russia
Scientists and locals together on the road: what is left after scientists expeditions?
Anup Sam Ninan, India
Rural Innovations: Technology Systems and Sustainability- Emerging Issues
Verónica Sanz, Spain
A Gender approach to the paradigm shift in Artificial Intelligence: the case of Soft Computing
Sakari Tamminen, Finland
Calculating Life: Nature and Nationhood in National Gene Resources
Aaro Tupasela, Finland
Re-thinking Public Participation in Biomedical Research
Torsten Wöllmann, Germany
Reinventing the Male: On the (Re-) Construction and Medicalization of the Male Body by Andrology
Isabel Zorn, Germany
Education by IT construction: The activity of constructing information and communication technology and its potential for evoking new views on the interrelations of self, technology and world
Andrea zur Nieden, Germany
Race/Ethnicity in the New Genetics. A Case Study about the German and Austrian Discourse about Breast Cancer Susceptability Genes (BRCA) and the 'Ashkenazi Jewish' Population
2006/2007
Corinna Bath, Germany
Towards a De-gendered Design of Information Technologies.
Feminism, Computer Science, and the Paradigm Shift towards "Interaction"
Nicoleta Chioncel, Romania
Women’s Interest and Activism in Science and Engineering vs. Teaching Science and Technology
Christina Dunbar-Hester, USA
“Radio for whom?” Media Activism, Identity, and the (Re)Imagination of FM Radio Technology in the U.S.
Dana Abi Ghanem, UK
Urban sustainability and Renewable Energy Technologies: How users matter
Anne-Francoise Gilbert, Switzerland
Gender and Engineering Cultures in Academy: the Case of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Niu Hueichih, Taiwan
Right and Duty in Genome MedicineA Regulatory Approach for Individual Autonomy, Risks and Social Justice in Human Subject Research
Steffen Koch, Germany
Infrastructure systems in urban water management – technological changes in historical and socio-technical perspective
Kyra Landzelius, Sweden
Technology and Personhood:
Neonatal Medicine and New Ways of Coming into Being
Les Levidow, UK
WTO agbiotech dispute: Transnational regulation as a legitimacy problem
Dora Marinova, Australia
Conceptualising Sustainability
David Mercer, Australia
Science Policy Formation in Austria and Europe - Case Studies
Anup Sam Ninan, India
Rural Innovations: Technology Systems and Sustainability- Emerging Issues
Tanja Paulitz, Germany
Gender and engineering design in the information society
Tess Pierce, USA
Online Gender and Power: A Rhetorical Comparative Analysis of the Visual and Discursive Metaphors on the Green Party USA and EuroGreen Websites
Kadri Simm, Estonia
Genetics and public health – dissecting the politics and the science behind, around, and beyond population genetic databases
Aleksandra Stupar, Republic of Serbia
Shaping the Image of Globalization: The Role of Technology in Urban Regeneration
Sakari Tamminen, Finland
Calculating Life: Nature and Nationhood in National Gene Resources Programmes
Ivan Hristov Tchalakov, Bulgaria
The Everyday Practice in the Research Laboratory: The Tension Between ‘Causal Actions’ and ‘Existential Action’ of the Human Agents - Some Possible Lessons from the Byzantine Interpretation of Aristotle’s Theory of Action
Isabel Zorn, Germany
Education by IT construction: The activity of constructing information and communication technology and its potential for evoking new views on the interrelations of self, technology and world
2005/2006
Dierk Bauknecht, Germany
Changing the Grid - Electricity system governance and the integration of distributed generation
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Germany
Medicalisation/Geneticisation of Human Procreation – Categories of Health and Sickness in the Biomedical Discourse Concerning Human Fertilisation
Nicoleta Chioncel, Romania
Women´s Interest and Activism in Science and Engineering versus Teaching Science and Technology
Olivier Alain Coutard, France
European Cities and Networked Infrastructure Systems: An Investigation in Urban Sustainability
Andrea Humphreys, Australia
The Politics of Sustainable Transport and the German Left: 1973-2006
Ericka Johnson, Sweden
Simulating medical practices: Analysing the construction and use of a gynaecological simulator
Pei Pei Koay, USA
(Re)Presenting Racial Politics through the New Biomedical Sciences
Balazs Köszeghy, Hungary
The Concept of Sustainability and its Application on Corporate Strategy – with a Special Focus on New Product Development and Product Life Cycle Management
Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Greece
Precautionary principle and technological design
Kyra Landzelius, USA
Technology and Personhood:
Neonatal Medicine and New Ways of Coming into Being
Franc Mali, Slovenia
The Role of Human Resources in National Research and Development Strategy – some Policy Issues in Slovenia as a Country with a small Research Community
Jochen Markard, Switzerland
Innovation System Analysis
Thomas Marmefelt, Sweden
Economic Transition, Civil Society, and Cultural Foundations of Innovation
Michelle McGowan, USA
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: Social, Ethical, and Political Economic Implications of Embryonic Genetic Testing
Erik Millstone, United Kingdom
The lessons of BSE for science-based risk governance
Svetlana Paunova, Bulgaria
Social Dimensions of the Infrastuctures in the End of 19th and the Beginning of 20th Century
Karin Sardadvar, Austria
Resetting the biological clock? The discursive construction of 'late motherhood'
Josephine Stein, United Kingdom
Sociology of Innovations
Kasim Tatic, Bosnia Herzegovina
Scientific-technological progres, competitiveness and natural resources
2004/2005
Marko Ahteensuu, Finland
The Precautionary Principle in the Risk Management of Modern Biotechnology
Dennis Anderson, USA
Project NABU (knowledge transfer beyond boundaries)
Corinna Bath, Austria
Sociality with Machines. Anthropomorphizing and Gendering in Software Agent Research and Robotics
Susanne Bauer, Germany
Environment, risk and susceptibility in epidemiology and toxicogenomics
Andrea Bunting, Australia
Development of an Evaluation Method and Formulation of Recommendations for Improved Teaching and Learning of Sustainability in Engineering Education
Valerie Francis, Australia
The importance of workplace support and work flexibility for civil engineers
Mary C. Ingram, USA
Cloning Embryos: A Sociological Analysis of Science, Gender, and Global Markets.
Gyula Kasza, Hungary
Critical Analysis of Public Participatory Techniques in Science and Technology Policy Making in Regard to GM Food Regulations
Emek Kepenek, Turkey
Research on the Content of National Policies on Technology and Sustainability for Developing Countries
Kyra Landzelius, USA
Technology and Personhood:
Neonatal Medicine and New Ways of Coming into Being
Oana Mitrea, Romania
The Gendered Patterns of Localization and Mobility in the Usage of Wireless Communication Technologies
Juha Räikkä, Finland
Gene Technology and World Poverty
Joan Rothschild, USA
The dream of the perfect child
Elvira Scheich, Germany
Wissenschaftsordnung und Geschlechterordnung. Historische Zusammenhänge und techno-politische Perspektiven
Gerd Schienstock, Finland
The Transformation from a Resource-based to a Knowledge-based Economy
Tereza Stöckelova, Czech Republic
Introduction of GMO in the Czech Republic: Localisation of a Global Controversy
Nina Toren, Israel
Women in Academic Science
2003/2004
Alla Bolotova, Russia
Social Constructions of Nature: Soviet Geologists as Professional "Conquerors of Nature"
Adrian Ely, United Kingdom
Regulatory Appraisals of Bt Transgenic Maize: A Study of Science in Governance
Risto Eräsaari, Finland
Key Concepts
Hajo Greif, Germany
Darwinizing Our Selves. The evolutionary making of modern man
Simon Guy, United Kingdom
Sustainable Architecture: Theories, Discourses, Practices
Imre Kozák, Hungary
Improvement of the design process of environmental limit values through the integration of risk factors
Franc Mali, Slovenia
The Social Role of Technology in the Context of the new Mode of Knowledge Production
Taru Peltola, Finland
Environmentally sound technology alternatives and public energy management
Anna I. Pobol, Belarus
Spin-off Firms in National Innovation System: Social Consensus
Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Sweden
Technology comes in different shapes to girls, boys and engineers-to be. Technology education, technology concepts and gender
Gerd Schienstock, Finland
Organizational Innovations
Tabitha Mulyampiti, Uganda
Making education technologies work: A gender analysis of the E-Learning programs in Makerere University, Kampala
Jan-Peter Voß, Germany
Sustainability Foresight as a method to shape socio-
technical transformation: Achievements and constraints in light of experimental application to utility systems
Raymund Werle, Germany
New Technologies and the Protection of Intellectual Property: On the Interaction of Institutional and Technical Innovations
Johannes Weyer, Germany
Innovationen fördern - aber wie? Zur Rolle des Staates in der Innovationspolitik
2002/2003
Ellen Balka, Canada
Freezing Social Relations: The Role of Technology in Structuring Knowledge about Health
Todor Galev, Bulgaria
Dual Use Research: Between Engineering Technology and Social Networks
Ulrich Glotzbach, Germany
Modelling Technology Rise and Shaping: Technological Style in Product Development
Don Ihde, USA
Bodies in Technology
Adelina Ilieva, Bulgaria
Ethics in the Regulatory Action: Social Shaping of Biotechnological Research
Courtney Everts Mykytyn, USA
Anti-Aging Medicine and the Irrelevance of Being Natural
Gerd Schienstock, Finland
Organizational Innovations
Olga Stoliarova, Russia
Social constructivism: an ontological turn (analysis of some trends of postmodern philosophy and sociology of science by the example of "symmetries")
Ivan Tchalakov, Bulgaria
Humanism Towards the Fellow Non-Human
2001/2002
Dmitri Efremenko, Russia
Public Participation in the Environment and Technology Oriented Decision-Making. Theoretical and Institutional Aspects.
Risto Eräsaari, Finland
Orientation Crisis and the Political Project of Inclusion.
Vitaly Gorokhov, Russia
A New Dimension of Technology Assessment in the e-Society: A Russian Perspective on Technocratic Thinking.
Vera Gouchtchina, Russia
Gender-work relations and axiology of work in cross-cultural perspective: a contextual approach.
Marlene Hinterhofer, Austria
GMOs in food. Possibilities and limitations of detection methods.
Shigeru Nakayama, Japan
Third paradigm of de-developed Japan
Gerd Schienstock, Finland
Information Society, Work and New Forms of Social Exclusion
Sonja Schmid, Austria
Transformations of popular-scientific discourses on nuclear power in Soviet and post-Soviet print media.
Franz Seifert, Austria
Biotechnolgy - The Public - Democracy.
The Austrian controversy on biotechnology in the international context.
2000/2001
Ellen Balka, Canada
Women Users: Re-Gendering Technology
Gerald Berger, Austria
Design-for-the-environment as part of a strategy towards ecological modernisation: Evaluating technological innovations in industry and their promotion through instruments of environmental policy-making.
Ulrich Dolata, Germany
Competition, Cooperation and Networking in Biotechnology. The socio-economic Evolution of a new Technology
Dmitri Efremenko, Russia
Technology Assessment as an Instrument of Prospective Environmental and Technological Policy
David Mercer, Australia
Law and Science, SSK and Science and Technology Policy, Public Understanding of Science, Risk, Scientific Technical Controversy.
Annette Ohme-Reinicke, Germany
Technological Development and Social Protest Movements
Walter Peissl, Austria
Technology Assessment in Austria - State of the Art and Research Activity of the ITA
Maria Rentetzi, Greece
Women Physicists and the Material Culture of Physics: Women's Participation in the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna and the Gendered Production of Knowledge
Ariella Vraneski, Israel
A Comparative Study on the Prevention, Mitigation and Resolution of Conflicts, and on Public Participation, as Means towards Sustainable Development
Doris Wallnöfer, Italy
Technowar. The diffusion of war into contemporary culture and politics
1999/2000
Radostina Anguelova, Bulgaria
Decision Making, Professional Choice and Motivation upon Entrance at University considering an emphasis on a comparative analysis between Austria and Bulgaria
Daniel Barben, Germany
The Generation and Shaping of Biotechnology: The Neo-liberal Configuration of Functions and Forms of Technological Regimes in a Comparative Perspective (USA-Germany/EU)
Eva Estók, Hungary
The Innovation and Technology Policy within Economic Growth
Cristina Marcolin, Italy
Technology policy in the Austrian development aid system
Alan Marshall, New Zealand
Cybernetics and the Ecosystem-Economy Analogy: a Study in the History of the Transdisciplinary use of the Concept of Self-Regulation in Technology, Nature and Society
Michael Stockinger, Austria
Technology and the Text - The Interplay of Information Technology and Contemporary Narrative
Alen Vitas, Croatia
Technology and the Text - The Interplay of Information Technology and Contemporary Narrative